I just didn’t have any idea what people were doing to make money or if I was making the right amount of money, I never negotiated my salary. So, I would just fill out the paperwork and turn it in at the job and I would have no concept of if I was going to be paying taxes later or they were taking them out week to week. I never looked into how my taxes were being taken out. I never looked into whether the companies I was working for, whether I had a 401(k) there or not. I had no idea that I had cash rewards waiting for me, I just had it. I had no idea what building a credit score was. Jeremy: Was it your experience that things did not work out somehow? I wonder if you could just tell us a little bit about that. I don’t ever need to ask what other people are doing. Oh there’s nothing to worry about.” Somehow this just works itself out and other people are just doing what they’re doing and you know, it seems to work for everyone else. It just meant someone who wasn’t looking into it, wasn’t looking at their bank account, wasn’t reading about what they should be doing, who just existed in a world where, like I did where I just figured, “It’ll all work out. Gabby: Well to me it was just uninformed. So the title of your new book is, “Bad With Money”, but what does it really mean to be bad with money? Gabby Dunn: Thank you so much for having me. Gabby has also recently written a book called, you guessed it, “Bad With Money.” We’ll be talking with Gabby about what it actually means to be bad with money and why millennials and Gen Z have unique challenges with their finances. Today we’ll be speaking with Gabby Dunn, a financial blogger, host of the podcast, Bad With Money and the star of the YouTube show, Just Between Us. Sign up and get $10 towards your new investment portfolio with promo code ‘ podcast10‘. Now let’s get to the interview.ĭownload Stash and make the life you want with the money you have. You should aim to increase your net worth over time. So why is net worth important? It’s a quick way to understand your financial situation and to see if you’re meeting your financial goals. If you have $1,000 in the bank and your total debt is $500 then your net worth is $500 and if you have $1,000 in the bank and you owe $1,000 well, guess what? Your net worth is zero. So it’s anything you own minus anything you owe. So what is net worth, exactly? In simplest terms, net worth is the value of your assets minus your liabilities. People can have them, so can companies and institutions. But before we get going, our term of the week is: net worth. On this week’s episode, we’ll be talking with personal finance, blogger and YouTube personality, Gaby Dunn. Jeremy Quittner: Welcome to Teach Me How to Money.
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